invasion. we have small con continue gents of americans who have been training with the taiwanese military for some time substantially increased that training. we have seen for instance how much the better the ukrainian army came from 2008 to 2022 because we had small contingence of american troops trainings military to become more will lethal. we should be doing the same thing with the taiwan defense forces. brian: whole world knows how we trained them it turns out since january, intelligence leaking from the pentagon. the way we have been spying, been able to acquire the communications of russia, find out how bad they are actually fighting. be able to possibly leak the plan ukraine has for a surge in the spring. how damaging these perceived leaks, how damaging have they been to the pentagon and to u.s. security?
out last year. lisa: that would do it. steve: we haven t heard the official reason why he dropped out yesterday but did he his best. lisa: beautiful scar from an acl surgery that i had lacrosse. steve: congratulations to mr. tensions polling over around. third day of massive blockade drills off the 50eu8d s coast. brian: taiwan s foreign minister warning of the potential for uncontrollable war this morning is lashing out guided missile destroyer into the south china see. alexander hough joins us with the latest. what do we need to know about this? china is out to tron c mon straight to the world out it.
and 17 unistled male. their bodies discovered in three different locations. silvernail and unidentified male on the side of the road. camille quarrels found partially submerged in a pond. the victims knew each other and part of a burglary and robbery ring designed to be wannabe gang. release additional details soon. back to you. 19 minutes now after the hour. today prosecutors will be working on a sentence date for army sergeant daniel perry convicted in the murder of an armed blm protest in 2020. lisa: perry acted in self-defense and pushing to pardon him a move that the far left austin calls troubling. steve: texas state senator brandon creighton joins us now. senator, good morning to you. good morning.
of world war? it s one thing to have a war with major power like ra russiat china as well? could we handle a two front war. we are depleting military arsenal in ukraine right now. the air force general saying that there is a possibility to his gut that we might be facing off with china in 20025. so i think people at home on this couch, it s scary. steve: it is scary. lives his this place we re now as a country and globallably as well. steve: mike gallagher a republican from wisconsin said there is something behind this. keep in mind the reason china is doing this they said hey, united states, if you meet with the president of taiwan we are going to do something really, really bad. if these military maneuvers, if that s as bad as it gets, that s not so bad. nonetheless, it is about a larger thing and here is the congressman. whins communist party is trying to intimidate us and bully us. massive bullies on the world stage. we would like to reunify taiwan
with the mainland by force, if necessary. the wave to do that is through psychological warfare. it s through economic coercion it s through political warfare. that s what president tsai has been warning us about. cognitive warfare. important for the american people not to be intimidated. the fact that the chinese were throwing a temper tantrum about the speaker of the house meeting with the democratically elected leader of taiwan on american soil just shows you how sensitive they are. and we need to support our friends in taiwan specifically by giving them the weapons that they have purchased from us, which have been backlogged. we need to be moving heaven and earth to surge power out to the indo-pacific before it s too late. before we have another war on our hands. brian: michael mccaul said we green lighted this, the arms to taiwan three years ago. and a lot of this is stuff that had nothing to do with supply chain. has to do with the willingness to make this happen because